Reading Envy

I wanted to call this episode "Raised by Wolves" for obvious reasons, but Episode 114 already did that! Whoops. Both Elizabeth and I seemed to be in an animal reading mood lately, and that permeates our picks. Elizabeth talks about some YA book events she attended in Houston, and Jenny talks about her home library, and both of us talk about books we've read and enjoyed lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 136: Six Pack with Elizabeth. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk Far from the Tree by Robin Benway American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer Foe by Iain Reid Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Other Discussion: Tweens Read - Houston Lumberjanes chapter books version (first one is Unicorn Power!) Rick Riordan Storm Runner series by J.C. Cervantes (first one is The Storm Runner) - this is the Mayan myth series Elizabeth mentions Becky Albertelli Adam Silvestri Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Ron Rash George Singleton Carmelo by Sandra Cisneros The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathy Appelt The Underneath by Kathy Appelt Maybe a Fox by Kathy Appelt The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Wishtree by Katherine Applegate The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Dogsong by Gary Paulsen I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan In the Distance by Hernan Diaz And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell More Than This by Patrick Ness The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo Atonement by Ian McEwan Saturday by Ian McEwan Related episodes: Episode 010 - YA Literature: Death and Mayhem with guests Alex and Carissa Episode 033 - An Undulating Thrum with guests Ruth and Elizabeth Episode 061 - Never Do That to a Book with Elizabeth  Episode 065 - Creeping through the Uncanny Valley with guest Bryan Alexander  Episode 098 - Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened with Bryan Bibb Episode 114 - Raised by Wolves with Karen Acosta Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 3) Stalk us online: Elizabeth at Goodreads    Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy 

Between my reading goal of six book speed-dating projects in 2018 and a looming pile of galleys, I knew it was time to do another round! Please enjoy this brief bonus episode (and mark your calendars - episodes will be weekly through the end of the year.) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 135: Bonus Speed-Dating 2018-5. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify   Provide feedback on Reading Envy Readalong Submit an audiofile about your best read from 2018 Books Discussed   Vanishing Twins: A Marriage by Leah Dieterich (Soft Skull Press, 9/4/18) The Lost Carousel of Provence by Juliet Blackwell (Berkley, 9/12/18) The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina (Two Dollar Radio, 9/18/18) Scribe by Alyson Hagy (Graywolf, 10/2/18) In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 11/6/18) Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 11/6/18) Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (Flatiron books, 11/6/18) Insomnia by Marina Benjamin (Catapult 11/13/18) Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (Algonquin Books, 1/8/19) The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar (Counterpoint, 2/5/19) The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (Crooked Lane Books, February 12, 2019) The Secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman (Berkley, 2/19/19) Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward (Park Row, 3/19/19) Related Episodes Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1 Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2 Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3    Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4) Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed dating Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode Episode 035 - Speed Dating Books   

Ruth, often known as Ruthiella, returns to the podcast to talk about several long books she has read and enjoyed lately. Jenny joins in with surprising selections. We talk about the pull of book lists for our own reading, and books we need to give a second chance. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 134: A Pastiche Romp with Ruthiella. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: Possession by A.S. Byatt Florida by Lauren Groff Fingersmith by Sarah Waters I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears Annie Muktuk and Other Stories by Norma Dunning Other Discussion: Man Booker Prize National Book Award Tournament of Books Possession (film) The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Arcadia by Lauren Groff Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters The Observations by Jane Harris Gillespie and I by Jane Harris Kate Morton Milkman by Anna Burns The Idiot by Elif Batuman Rashaman (film) Arcadia by Iain Pears The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Jonathan Argyll series (art history) by Iain Pears Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Books on the Nightstand podcast Middlemarch by George Eliot Books and Chocolate  blog - Back to Classics challenge The Tin Drum by Günter Grass Related episodes: Episode 033 - An Undulating Thrum with guests Ruth and Elizabeth Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella)  Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto   Episode 105 - Best Reads of 2017  Episode 131 - Tartan Noir and More with Claire Duffy Stalk us online: Ruth at Goodreads Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy 

Just in time for Non-Fiction November, Lauren and Jenny get together to talk about their reads for Science September (#scienceseptember) and the reads we envied from other people. The title of the episode comes from Carl Sagan, referring to taking children to the library to help answer their questions: "Every question is a cry to understand the world." Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 133: To Understand the World. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify Pictured: Only some of the fantastic science books read in September Books Discussed: Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks The Great Quake by Henry Fountain The Song of Trees by David George Haskell The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben 1997 article in Nature about mycorrhizal fungal networks The Overstory by Richard Powers Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone by Juli Berwald The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney (not linking because this has been debunked and should be considered shenanigans) The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan Waking Up Podcast #135: Navigating Sex and Gender (Sam Harris) Light of the Stars by Adam Frank How to Tame a Fox by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean by Jonathan White The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One by Sylvia A. Earle Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter by Ellen J. Prager The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean M. Carroll The Physics of Everyday Things by James Kakalios The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Susskind Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek Your Kids Might Live on Mars. Here's How They'll Survive. (Stephen Petranek TED Talk) Mars (tv series on NatGeo) The Poetic Species by Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Science and Power of Dreams by Matthew Walker Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Pollack It’s All Relative by A.J. Jacobs Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William Maples The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Seeds by Thor Hanson The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species by Richard Ellis The Beauty in the Beast: Britain’s Favourite Creatures and the People Who Love Them by Hugh Warwick (not available in the USA) The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis Thanks to the following readers in Instagram for sharing their #scienceseptember reads! @loreofbooks @reallifereading @rhode_reads @madeo

Anna Baillie-Karas is a reader and podcaster from Adelaide, Australia. She joins Jenny in the Reading Envy pub to talk about book award lists, expanding our range, organizing our home libraries, and books we've read lately! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 132: Whimsy and Density. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: Milkman by Anna Burns Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton There There by Tommy Orange Other Mentions: Books on the Go (podcast) The First Tuesday Book Club (Australian tv show) Man Booker Prize Clock Dance by Anne Tyler Circe by Madeleine Miller Book Riot Read Harder Challenge National Book Award (now includes translated literature award) Disoriental by Negar Djavadi Tricks by Domenico Starnoni The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Winchester Shawn Mooney (Booktube) Kendra Winchester (Booktube) Simon Savidge from the Readers (Booktube) What Kamil Reads (Booktube) No Bones by Anna Burns Women's Prize for Fiction The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh ScotiaBank Giller Prize Get Booked (podcast) Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Mythos by Stephen Fry Heroes by Stephen Fry Ulysses by James Joyce Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin #1) by Boris Akunin Before Sunrise (film) Before Sunset (film) Before Midnight (film) Lost Connections by Johann Hari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty Annie Muktuk & Other Stories by Norma Dunning Related Episodes: Episode 002 - Return of the Euthanized Book with guest Bryan Alexander Episode 006 -  Bailey's Women's Prize 2014 Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney  Episode 098 - Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened with Bryan Bibb  Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold Stalk us online: Books on the Go Podcast Anna is @abailliekaras on Instagram Anna on Twitter Anna at Goodreads Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Claire Duffy is a crime writer in Glasgow, and overall interesting person who came on the Reading Envy podcast to chat books. We talk about how tartan noir has very little to do with tartans, the crime community in Scotland, and how classics change as we get older. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 131: Tartan Noir and More. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: Garnethill by Denise Mina The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Finding Peggy by Meg Henderson Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell Other Mentions:  Dark of Night, Episode One by C.S. Duffy The Bridge (tv show) Mary Higgins Clark Bloody Scotland Festival Mark Billingham Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Trainspotting (film) Ian Rankin Val McDermid Noir at the Bar, Edinburgh Noir at the Bar: An Oral History National Book Award (USA) Man Booker Prize Not the Booker Prize I See You by Clare Mackintosh Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell Downton Abbey (tv series) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler Related Episodes (those with crime): Episode 058 - Wishing for a Sequel with Scott D. Danielson Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis Episode 062 - Olfactory Stimuli with David Galloway Episode 072 - Books Are My Bag with Sarah K Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis Episode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez  Episode 110 - The Accidental Love Episode with Casey Stepaniuk Episode 114 - Raised by Wolves with Karen Acosta Episode 115 - Quote, Unquote with Scott Eaton  Stalk us online: Claire is @csduffywriter on Instagram Claire is also @writer.on.the.go on Instagram if you want to check out her dictating while exercising project Claire on Twitter Claire on Facebook Claire on the internet Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

I really screwed up the first time I tried posting this, and some people are still seeing the old episode. So I'm trying a second post of Episode 130. If you've already listened to Jenny and Fern talk books, this is nothing new, but if you tried to listen to Fern and got Nadine, this is your episode. Fern Ronay is an author, host of various things including a new podcast, and an avid reader, especially of women's fiction and historical fiction. She spoke with Jenny recently and you can join us at the pub. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 130: All the Jennifers. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books Discussed: We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter The Overstory by Richard Powers The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable I Am Hutterite by Mary-Ann Kirkby The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons Other Mentions:  "Signs from the Other Side" podcast Better in the Morning by Fern Ronay Barkskins by Annie Proulx (Annie Dillard is great but I said the wrong Annie) Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen by Mary-Ann Kirkby Related Episodes: Episode 029 - Joni Tevis and the Secret Shape with guest Joni Tevis Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Stalk us online: Fern Ronay website Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Fern Ronay on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Fern is @fernronay on Instagram Fern Ronay on Facebook Believers in Signs (private Facebook group from Fern, request membership)

Fern Ronay is an author, host of various things including a new podcast, and an avid reader, especially of women's fiction and historical fiction. She spoke with Jenny recently and you can join us at the pub. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 130: All the Jennifers. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books Discussed: We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter The Overstory by Richard Powers The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable I Am Hutterite by Mary-Ann Kirkby The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons Other Mentions:  "Signs from the Other Side" podcast Better in the Morning by Fern Ronay Barkskins by Annie Proulx (Annie Dillard is great but I said the wrong Annie) Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen by Mary-Ann Kirkby Related Episodes: Episode 029 - Joni Tevis and the Secret Shape with guest Joni Tevis Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Stalk us online: Fern Ronay website Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Fern Ronay on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Fern is @fernronay on Instagram Fern Ronay on Facebook Believers in Signs (private Facebook group from Fern, request membership)

Nadine has been a listener of the podcast and in a Goodreads group with Jenny for some time. After retiring from a career of academic librarianship, Nadine is settled into a new state and ready to chat books! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 129: Coming Back to Books. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books Discussed: Smoke City by Keith Roston The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos Other Mentions:  Newest Literary Fiction Group in Goodreads When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Pegasus Books Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor The Reservoir Tapes (BBC Radio 4) The Beggar's Opera by John Gay Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce East of Eden by John Steinbeck Cannery Row by John Steinbeck August by Romina Paula My Big Fat Greek Wedding (film) Milkman by Anna Burns Summerland by Hanu Rajaniemi The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin Related Episodes: Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Nadine at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Nadine is @booksndogs on Litsy

It's a bonus hodgepodge episode, including a wrap-up of Reading Envy Summer Reading, my fourth round of book speed-dating for 2018, and an announcement of the fall Reading Envy Readalong. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 128: Poetry and Whale Guts. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Summer Reading Wrap-Up: Reading Envy Roadtrip Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay The Last Cruise by Kate Christensen Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre Republic of Dirt by Susan Juby Reading Envy Picnic The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty The Late Bloomers' Club by Louise Miller 1-2-3-4 Cake Burnt Sugar Cake with Maple Icing Canada and Alaska The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban Home to Woefield by Susan Juby Alaska by James Michener Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Light reads, funny reads Stray City by Chelsey Johnson Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Speed Dating, Round 4 of 2018 - #scienceseptember Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell’s Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears by Nick Jans Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist by Eva Saulitis The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska’s Inupiat Eskimos by Nick Jans The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Ellen Meloy The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben Travels in Alaska by John Muir Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush Coming into the Country by John McPhee Reading Envy Readalong for Fall 2018 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Reading Women Challenge 2018 The Guardian - 50 Years On  NPR - Fresh Air Remembers The Golden Notebook LitHub - Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings Related Episodes: Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff  Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1 Episode 116 - Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again with Jeff Koeppen Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2 Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World  Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3  Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy